05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... Le Point, that its new space force will be equipping its satellites with cameras, machine guns and lasers to defend against any potential attackers. It is envisaged that preparations will start with cameras being attached to the...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...much smaller magnitude). Debris removal using space-based lasers benefits from not requiring extra propellant for trajectory alterations...process. However, one stringent requirement is that the laser must produce high power, which in turn requires ...
20 May 2026
Greek optical ground station boosts Europe’s space connectivity
... link: the Holomondas OGS and the ATLAS-1 laser communication terminals onboard the two satellites. Together, ...their demonstration phase, they will help validate innovative laser communication technologies that will provide alternatives to scarce ...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
...programme’s four Sentinel observation satellites. Since it entered service in late 2016, it has achieved more than 20,000 laser connections. The reliability rate has reached 99.5%, and these successful connections have downloaded more than 1 petabyte...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
...speed, it was too great for him to measure. The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LLRE) left on the Moon by the Apollo ...experiments that disagree with the information collated by the laser experiment. One dataset uses tidal rhythmites, fossils left...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
...first orbital data for space debris obtained from laser tracking. Since then novel optical tracking technologies ... orbits, or even to de-orbit, using high powered lasers. The participants have already individually achieved key milestones towards this...
